Study: It Pays to Undergo Orthopedic Surgery (Literally)
The jokes began well before the Big Reveal. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams—of all people—led the lampooning, making light of his high school football career during a mid-July visit to “The Late Show with David Letterman.” The habitually straitlaced journalist facetiously recounted his ill-fated stint with the Mater Dei High School Seraphs in Middletown, N.J., more than three decades ago, calling himself “110 pounds of steaming Irish Catholic fury.”
Williams was an offensive end/defensive outside linebacker for the Seraphs—a posit...